Due for Monday 11:59 PM Turn in your feature paper!
Due for Tuesday Read one of the following articles on Rolling Stone's 2014 article about a rape on UVA's campus or about the accusation of sexual assault on Joe Biden (there are descriptions of sexual violence at the start of articles 1, 2, and 3): 1. The Guardian - 5 years later 2. CJR - What went wrong 3. The New Yorker - Reporting on Rape 4. Poynter - Rape and anonymity of victims 5. Here's a general post on journalistic ethics from NPR if you don't want to read about sexual assault. Blog Post: How should media companies approach covering sensitive subjects and violent events like rape and sexual assault? What journalistic ethics were violated or transgressed in the case of Rolling Stone's article? How do you respond to Laura McGann refusing to break the story of Tara Reade's allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden? Now, almost a decade later, have we gotten better as a society when it comes to our expectations for journalism or conversations / conditions around sexual assault and rape? What strides still need to be made? Due for Thursday Bring in something for our gift exchange! Don't buy anything! Also a snack?
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Due for Friday's Class Come to class with something for our gift exchange! Bring in something that you don't want in your life anymore. If you can't find anything and you want to participate, spend $5 at most.
Due for Friday 11:59 pm Turn in your Op-Ed on Antigone's Statue proposal onto Schoology Due over Break Submit your Soph Speech Brainstorm Document onto Schoology Due for Tuesday, 12/13 Read the following articles from Rick Bragg: "A Theif Dines Out, Hoping Later to Eat In" and "Prisoner's Pittance is Meant as a Reminder of a Great Loss". Blog post: How should prison systems deal with prisoners like Graham Mahes? How do you respond to a sentence that asks Brandon Blenden to write a weekly check as pittance? How should we understand remorsefulness as a factor in prison sentencing / the prison system? How do you respond to this judge who favors alternative sentencing: “Whenever I utilize any type of creative punishment, it’s to hopefully teach people a lesson,” says Judge Carr. “I think it’s a deterrent. No one likes to be publicly humiliated, so it sends a clear message.” One recent case was a teen charged with cyberbullying, who she made post another video of her apologizing on Facebook. “I’m big on apologies,” says Carr. “I haven’t heard any criticism. If anything, I received overwhelming mail saying, ‘great job, great sentence.’ Even the young lady with the Facebook said she really learned her lesson.”
Due for Mon, 12/19 Submit your feature story onto Schoology. IF YOU DO NOT FINISH THE SCHOOLOGY POST IN CLASS, BE SURE TO FINISH IT FOR HOMEWORK BEFORE OUR NEXT CLASS
Due for Friday, 12/09 Read through line (248!!!!) (stop when the sentry comes in). We'll tackle this Schoology post to start class: It's easy enough to understand Antigone's argument for burying her brother, but it's a bit tricky to parse through Ismene's hesitance. How can we make sense of it? Due for Monday 12/12 Read through 655! You'll have 10 or so minutes of classtime to finish reading and submit your thoughts on a Schoology post to prime you for our conversation. It'll be on Ismene's willingness to claim the penalty in solidarity for Antigone's actions. Due for Wednesday, 12/14 Read through 880! You'll have 10 or so minutes of classtime to finish reading and submit your thoughts on a Schoology post to prime you for our conversation. It'll be on what the proper role of an advisor is for a king. Due for Friday, 12/16 Read through 1238! Read the following excerpts then pen your thoughts on one of the following questions: Antigone: Of course I [broke the law]. It wasn't Zeus, not in the least, who made this proclamation—not to me. Nor did that justice, dwelling with the gods beneath the earth, ordain such laws for men. Nor did I think your edict had such force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods, the great unwritten, unshakable traditions... Give me glory! What greater glory could I win than to give my own brother decent burial? Creon: Therefore we must defend the men who live by law, never let some woman triumph over us. Better to fall from power, if fall we must, at the hands of a man never be rated inferior to a woman, never. Antigone: Never, I tell you if I had been the mother of children or if my husband died, exposed and rotting— I'd never have taken this ordeal upon myself, never defied our people's will. What law, you ask, do I satisfy with what I say? A husband dead, there might have been another. A child by another too, if I had lost the first. But mother and father both lost in the halls of Death, no brother could ever spring to light again. Mary Beard (Cambridge Classics Professor): You unpeel the cultural layers and investigate the history and you will find that the ancients were having some familiar debates. Like Perseus and Medusa: decapitating women, silencing women, cutting women’s tongues out. There are things that are so resonant with now. If you look at what Twitter trolls tend to say when they want to target a woman, they go back to those tropes about cutting tongues out, cutting your head off and raping it. And I’m pretty certain that many of them have not read Ovid. 1. Should Antigone be seen as a radical extremist or a revolutionary fighting against an oppressor? 2. If the classics are the foundation of "Western civilization" and are rife with misogyny and sexism, is it fair to claim that they have a role in the current sexism and misogyny we witness today? 3. Should Newton South force all students to read works from Ancient Greece and Rome if they continue to be co-opted by White Supremacists and pushed for ugly racism? (You'll want to check out the New York Times' "He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?" and EIDOLON's "We Condone It by Our Silence") CP: Respond to one of the prompts in 100-150 words AND respond to at least one other person's post for homework ACP: Respond to one of the prompts in 100-150 words AND respond to at least one other person's post (with evidence) for homework H: Respond to one of the prompts in 100-150 words AND respond to at least two other people's posts (with evidence) for homework Due for Monday 12/19 Finish reading the play! You'll have 10 or so minutes of classtime to finish reading and submit your thoughts on a Schoology discussion post: whose fate is more tragic: Creon or Antigone? Due for Tuesday Have your interviews done! This block will be a work block, so if you want to schedule an interview for this block, that makes sense, too. Please submit your notes on your
Due for Thursday Read either American Male Age 10 (1992) or American Male Age 17 (2019), both published in Esquire (both located on our Resources Page). Blog post: Think of your stereotypical adolescent or teenage male. What does he look like? What does he like to do? What is he interested in? How does he feel about his family, siblings, romance, teachers, and friends? What is important to him? How does your reading lean into, qualify, complicate, or refute these stereotypes? Does reading this piece in 2022, during an era in which our ideas about gender and power are shifting, feel helpful? Regressive? Inappropriate? Due for Monday, 12/12 Work on your draft of your feature story! Due for Tuesday, 12/13 Read the following articles from Rick Bragg: "A Theif Dines Out, Hoping Later to Eat In" and "Prisoner's Pittance is Meant as a Reminder of a Great Loss". Blog post: How should prison systems deal with prisoners like Graham Mahes? How do you respond to a sentence that asks Brandon Blenden to write a weekly check as pittance? How should we understand remorsefulness as a factor in prison sentencing / the prison system? How do you respond to this judge who favors alternative sentencing: “Whenever I utilize any type of creative punishment, it’s to hopefully teach people a lesson,” says Judge Carr. “I think it’s a deterrent. No one likes to be publicly humiliated, so it sends a clear message.” One recent case was a teen charged with cyberbullying, who she made post another video of her apologizing on Facebook. “I’m big on apologies,” says Carr. “I haven’t heard any criticism. If anything, I received overwhelming mail saying, ‘great job, great sentence.’ Even the young lady with the Facebook said she really learned her lesson.” |
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